Behind The Yellow Tape

Continuing this engaging interview with Her Honour Nicola Williams, she opens up about her transition from real-life legal drama to fictional storytelling and how a lifetime in law sharpened her pen and fuels her fiction. Whether you're an aspiring author or a courtroom drama fan, Judge Nicola Williams's story is both inspiring and entertaining. She also shares personal anecdotes and insights from...

In this episode, J.A. Lovelock speaks with Her Honour Nicola Williams, criminal law barrister-turned-judge and award-winning legal thriller author. Nicola shares highlights from her multifaceted career as she reflects on her early days and challenges at the Bar as well as her experiences as a Crown Court Recorder. An insightful listen for anyone in law.

Concluding this mini-series on domestic abuse, J.A. Lovelock meets Luke Daniels, a counsellor, activist and author working in the field of domestic violence. Luke Daniels shares insights from his work with perpetrators, emphasising the impact of childhood experiences, societal factors, and the need for education to address and prevent abuse.

Domestic abuse is often framed as a women’s issue, but men, too, can be victims of coercion, violence, and emotional abuse. In this episode of Behind the Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock speaks with Mark Brooks OBE, Chairman of ManKind Initiative, a leading UK charity that provides support for male victims of domestic abuse. With statistics often highlighting the tragic reality for female victims, the e...

Even though domestic abuse is still largely hidden and under-reported, it is probably more widespread than you think. Domestic abuse is not just about men beating and abusing women or women beating and abusing men. It is estimated that around 4.5% of children and young people experience domestic abuse in their home. In this episode J.A. Lovelock meets Lisa Gerardy who shares her lived experience o...

Even though domestic abuse is still largely hidden and under-reported, it is probably more widespread than you think. It is estimated that that one in four women will experience domestic abuse at some point in their lives and on average two women are killed every week by their current or former partner. J.A. Lovelock is joined by Ruchi Singh who shares her lived experience of domestic abuse.

In 1922 a solicitor Herbert Rowse Armstrong was charged, convicted and hanged for the murder of his wife even though the evidence against him was insubstantial. But before that in 1920, another solicitor, Harold Greenwood was also charged with the murder of his wife Mabel. Two lawyers. Similar circumstances. Same result?

You will have heard on a previous episode, J.A. Lovelock’s interview with Crime Scene Investigator (CSI/SOCO) Kate Bendelow discussing her work as a CSI. In this episode, J.A. Lovelock meets Andrew Langley, who for many years worked as a Crime Scene Manager. Andrew will recount real-life cases he helped to investigate and shine a light behind the yellow tape.

Step back into 18th-century London, where the cobbled streets of the historic Inns of Court witnessed a chilling murder. In this episode of Behind the Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock delves into the case of Sarah Malcolm, a laundress who found herself at the center of a brutal crime. Was she truly the mastermind behind the murders at Temple Bar, or was she an innocent woman caught in a web of deceit an...

Back in the year 2000 and until late 2015 a new fictional television show about how crimes are solved blazed onto our screens. It so captured the imagination that every man and his dog believed, after watching the episodes, they had the tools and expertise to solve crimes. The show? CSI of course. But here to separate the fact from the fiction is Kate Bendelow, a Scene of Crime Officer, otherwise...

Back in the year 2000 and until late 2015 a new fictional television show about how crimes are solved blazed onto our screens. It so captured the imagination that every man and his dog believed, after watching the episodes, they had the tools and expertise to solve crimes. The show? CSI of course. But here to separate the fact from the fiction is Kate Bendelow, a Scene of Crime Officer, otherwise...

Fairy tales. Cinderella. Wicked Stepmothers and Evil Stepsisters. It’s one thing if your stepsister treats you mean but quite another when your own flesh and blood sister wants you dead. In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape J.A. Lovelock finds out why Catherine Kinrade would want her sister dead.

Concluding her series on knife crime and its effects and impact on families and the wider community, J.A. Lovelock catches up with award-winning playwright and author Michelle Inniss to talk about her new play in development They Know Not What They Do. A play whose central theme deals with forgiveness after the murder of a loved one, and the part it plays in the Criminal Justice System.

Continuing her series on knife crime and its effects, J.A. Lovelock catches up with author Yvvette Edwards, whose teenage stepson, was the victim of a random non-fatal knife attack in 2009. Yvvette’s latest novel, The Mother, is largely based on that real-life experience where she explores the devastating impact of knife crime on a family and how they navigate the Criminal Justice System during th...

On the 25 th of February 2017 Michelle Phillips’s life changed forever. It was the day her 28-year-old son, Jonathan McPhillips was fatally stabbed while acting as a peacemaker in a brawl outside Islington Town Hall, in north London. In an emotional recollection she tells J.A. Lovelock what really happened and how she copes with her loss.

On the 25th of February 2017 Michelle Phillips’s life changed forever. It was the day her 28-year-old son, Jonathan McPhillips was fatally stabbed while acting as a peacemaker in a brawl outside Islington Town Hall, in north London. In an emotional recollection she tells J.A. Lovelock what really happened and how she copes with her loss.

In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock considers the case of Reverend John Selby Watson, a man of the cloth who bludgeoned his wife of thirty plus years to death. Will this ‘man of God’ meet his maker via the hangman’s noose, or will divine intervention come to his aid?

In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock considers the case of Catherine Foster, a teenage bride convicted of killing her husband of only three weeks by arsenic poisoning. But was she guilty or innocent?

Former lawyer and crime fiction writer of the vintage age Harriet Steel has been described as a modern-day Agatha Christie. In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock catches up with Harriet to learn more.

Former lawyer and crime fiction writer of the vintage age Harriet Steel has been described as a modern-day Agatha Christie. In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock catches up with Harriet to learn more.

Her comes summer! In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock is joined again by crime fiction author G.B Williams, who shares her recommendations of crime fiction novels that will keep you gripped and entertained all summer long.

In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock considers the cases of two men called Henry: both accused of killing a widow called Alice: both killings included a hammer but which of the two Henry’s is the real murderer?

In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock catches up with Steven Keogh, a former Scotland Yard detective inspector. In this two-part series he tells her of his experience investigating terrorism and murder cases and what it takes to catch killers and bring them to justice.

In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock catches up with Steven Keogh, a former Scotland Yard detective inspector. In this two-part series he tells her of his experience investigating terrorism and murder cases and what it takes to catch killers and bring them to justice.

In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock assess the case of Ann Lawrence who in 1867, became the penultimate woman to be publicly hanged in Britain for the murder of her own child, but was she really guilty of such a heinous crime?